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The Crooked Furrow
by Farnol, Jeffery
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Samson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, London, No date. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Red coloured boards with black entwined author's initials to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel with black coloured titles to the backstrip. A historical romance from probably the 1930s, by one of the genre's early exponents. There is no readily available publication data, but the dedication page is dated 1937. Softening to the backstrip edges with bumping, rubbing and fraying of the book corners. The spine is somewhat cocked. Rubbing to the book panels, and either side of the backstrip. sunning to the backstrip with light browning of the textblock edges and paint foxing present. A previous owner has placed the date 28/10/00 to the top left-hand corner of the front paste-down, along with the number 67. There is a presentation plate to the free front end paper. Age toning and paint foxing to the pages and pages 117 through to page 126 have become a little dogeared, top right-hand corner. The hinge has cracked at the rear, the underlying webbing is visible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [6] VII - IX, [1], 342 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Romance. Inventory No: 0116521. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0116521
- Title
- The Crooked Furrow
- Author
- Farnol, Jeffery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Samson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Novel, Romance, 1930s Fiction; Romance. Unbranded Farnol, Jeffery The Crooked Furrow
Terms of Sale
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
transaction in Australian $'s for checks and money orders.If the book is not as described, return within 14 days, for a refund of the cost of the book.
We are registered for GST and goods sold to an Australian delivery address will include GST. Our ABN 15 100 960 047
About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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